The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

You have an analytical mind and a passion for the craft of software engineering, and you love solving problems and learning new things. You enjoy coaching and leading teams and helping enable individuals to be successful. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers’ business objectives. This opportunity for the right leader will keep them on the edge of emerging technology and open source communities all focused on simplifying running on kubernetes and all the automation needed to do that at scale.

What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?

As an engineer you know the work it takes to start with vanilla kubernetes, deploy workloads on it, connect to services, and manage the cluster upgrades. This role focuses on solutions to simply managing divergent kubernetes clusters across clouds, with a focus on efficiency, automation and cost optimization.

This role is responsible for understanding the workflows of platform engineers and Cloud Centers of Excellence in the concerns of serving clusters and application runtimes to developers and third party consumers.

This work includes technical leadership across cloud and on prem kubernetes solutions, quality assurance, engineering efficiency, and investment, influence in product strategy and leading a large team of distributed remote first engineers.

This role is a key engineering leadership role overseeing a key part of Tanzu next generation of products and has peers with similar scopes aligned in this mission..

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• You can communicate and collaborate with product and design in your development and you are constructive in sharing your opinions

You oversee the staffing setup, location strategy for work and feasibility in overall operating costs.

Your programs are healthy as determined by key metrics of engagement, retention, work/life balance, delivery that you helped put in place.

You help drive consistency in engineering practices and have a healthy focus on ensuring outcomes and delivery.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

As a leader in Engineering, you will:

• Manage headcount, budget, hiring, onboarding, best cost efforts

• Enabling three or more programs to sustainably deliver high quality solutions

• Coach managers and help to sustainably grow the teams and individuals on your program.

• Leading and orienting a team of 60+ engineers and managers towards delivering against program objectives.

• Work at a program level with product leads, technical leads, designers, and people managers in figuring out what to work on next and how to prepare for future work.

• Bring clarity where there is uncertainty, managing risk and continuously delivering value.

• Defining experiments, measuring success metrics and using data to inform decisions.

As a remote first organization, time zones matter more than physical location. This role has a preference for PST.

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

The hiring manager for this role is VP of Engineering. This VP leads Engineering for all Tanzu products: TKG, TMC, TSM, TAS, and TAP.

What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?

You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
• Generous Time Off Programs
• 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
• Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
• Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)

For US based candidates, the annual pay range (OTE for commissioned roles; Salary for other roles) for this position is: $188,000 - $450,000. The actual offer will be based on the role, location, and individual candidate experience. Bonus, commission, and/or equity may be eligible for this position. VMware offers comprehensive benefits including, but not limited to: medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time. Additional benefits for this position can be found at https://benefits.vmware.com/. Your talent advisor can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

This job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Product Dev Management
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2023-05-09

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